Newmains

Newmains is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

History
Newmains was the site of a Scottish settlement founded in 1296, with Newmains Castle being built nearby. It included a monastery and university in addition to the usual parts of a town, being houses, a market, a farm, and some military buildings. In the Anglo-Scots Wars, it was the base camp of a 1304 siege by Scotland against England in nearby Wishaw.